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Re: Question on Samsonite gears sets
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:33:03 GMT
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Allen:
In lugnet.general, Alan Demlow writes:
> Hi. I found a nice lot of 60's and 70's stuff yesterday at the local
> Salvation Army, which included some large gears: 2 blue (8-stud
> diameter), 4 yellow (4-stud), and 4 white (2-stud). There are no axles
> included in the lot. All of the Samsonite gears sets listed on Pause came
> with different gears, axles, etc., but they're all from the 70's and
> Samsonite made the gears before then according to a site I've been
> perusing. For a picture of an older gears set, see:
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> http://www.planet-interkom.de/lfreak/samsonit.htm
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> The site is in German; the text above the gear picture basically says
> Samsonite started producing Lego gears in the US in 1966. Can anybody
> point me to a catalog containing this set, or instructions for it?
The first set with gears was the Samsonite 001 Gears Set from 1966 (although
several internet references say 1971). Samsonite produced sets with these gears
until 1972 (Lego took over in 73 with a completely new retail assortment.)
For some more information on 001 and Samsonite gears see:
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/history/1970/1966.html
For later sets including the last US sets with gears see:
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/samsonite.html
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> Question #2: since the gears don't have any axles with them, and in any
> case Technic axles wouldn't work in them, may I assume they worked by
> attaching them to the old wheels? That's the impression the picture
> linked to above gives.
These gears predate the idea of a cross axle. They can connect to anything with
studs (e.g. a wheel or a 4 x 4 round turntable--which were in the 001 Gear
set). European Lego started producing gears in 1970. These gears were much
closer to what we now know as Technic gears. They used crossaxles, bushings,
universal joints, etc (all technic compatable). These exsisted until the Hobby
sets were discontinued in 1977 when Technic was introduced.
For more information on these gears see:
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/history/1970/1970.html
And the hobby models:
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/hobbymodel.html
But also see:
http://web.pncl.co.uk/~huw/lego/reference/1970s/1970home.html
or
http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/
Which should cover about any European gear set.
--Jim
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